After a few years of living in our home, we decided to change around our first floor rooms to better fit our lifestyle. The living room was rarely being used, which was a shame since it’s the largest room in our house. We also found that we had a need for a home office. The dining room was the most logical place to put it based on the size of the room and its location in the house but we didn’t want to get rid of our dining room altogether. The solution was to turn our large, rarely used living […]

Last weekend I finally got around to painting my kitchen table, which is a project that’s been on my to-do list for weeks. You may remember that my table is actually a desk (Ballard Designs’ Whitley desk): Last weekend she finally got her makeover and I couldn’t be happier with her new look! The best thing about using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint to paint my table up is that it requires NO prep work. No sanding. No priming. Nada. I chose “French Linen”, a dark gray, as my paint color. I used a natural bristle brush (a $1 chip brush from Home Depot) to apply […]